Beeminder Buzz: Front Page of the Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

By bsoule

Exciting news about Beeminder today: we’re on the front page of the Wall Street Journal! [1]
It’s an interesting little write-up about the Quantified Self movement as “digital mother” — capturing Beeminder’s relationship to Quantified Self beautifully —
and features one of our favorite beeminders (Okay, we have a lot of favorite beeminders, don’t be jealous), Reto Stamm.

Roundup of Other Press

Since we went to the trouble of blogging it, we’d better do a roundup of other press since the last time we did this, namely, when we had our full-page feature in Southwest Airlines magazine in January.

Fatcyclist beeminds his weight, and links to his Beeminder weight graph in the sidebar of his blog. He also tweeted his graph every day as he beeminded his way to belying his name, which has been a pretty big deal for us.

Productivity author Michael Linenberger wrote about arbitrary deadlines and Beeminder. If you like Beeminder you’ll probably love Linenberger’s systems — they jibe with ideas from Beeminder, such as the akrasia horizon (10 days in Linenberger’s system instead of Beeminder’s 7).

Akrasia

Akrasia (ancient Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command over oneself") is the state of acting against one's better judgment, not doing what one genuinely wants to do. It encompasses procrastination, lack of self-control, lack of follow-through, and any kind of addictive behavior.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia